Bayside High's future to bear new football coach/AD

12:02 AM,
Jun. 29, 2013

Derek Smith has stepped down at Bayside High.

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Shane Donovan
| FLORIDA TODAY

Bayside High's Bears will answer to a new regime this upcoming school year, after the high school's athletic director (and head football coach), along with the principal stepped down this week.

"It was wonderful to work for the community, and I wish those kids the best of luck in the future," former football head coach and athletic director ­Derek Smith said.

After going 8-5 and 9-4 with playoff appearances in Smith's first two seasons, the Bears finished 4-6 each of the past two years. Bayside's tough out-of-district schedule was the result of two sub-.500 seasons. Smith's four-year tenure ...